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Take the TTIP...
Under pressure from their masters in Washington, behind closed doors under utmost secrecy - and most likely against their own personal good - a small group of European Commission (EC) delegates,
...only interested in the instant laurels and pay-back - to be sure - from the colonialist, usurper and warrior number One, the United States of Chaos and Killing, they are ready to put 500 million Europeans and their descendants at peril.
It cannot be said enough what horrors the TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) would do to the people of Europe; and that is based on the little we know from the 248 pages 'leaked' by Greenpeace Netherlands of the ultra-clandestine negotiations taking place.
'Negotiations' is the most unfair term imaginable, since all the rules are imposed by Washington, the same as with the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership, involving 11 Pacific countries and the US - but not China and Russia).
Though TPP negotiations are finished, none of the 11 Pacific partners, nor the US Congress have approved the treaty.
There is hope that even if 'negotiations' by the secret EC traitors and Washington should come to conclusion, at least some of the 28 EU countries may not approve.
To be valid, the treaty needs to be approved in unanimity. The new rightwing Austrian frontrunner for Austrian's Presidency, Norbert Hofer, has already said he would not sign the TTIP agreement.
Similar remarks have been made by the French Minister for Foreign Trade, Matthias Fekl, who said,
Under the TTIP, the citizens of Europe would lose out on all fronts.
Europeans would become literally subjects of a corporate empire, led by the United States of America. EU countries would stop being sovereign nations, even more so than is already the case under the current Brussels dictate.
As the secret TTIP documents reveal, the agreement would be the death knell for Europe.
Here is what Susan George, philosopher and political analyst and President of the Planning Committee of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam has to say:
But most important:
This simply means that private corporate courts would be above the laws and courts of sovereign nations.
There would be no sovereignty left; not even the little idependence Brussels has not yet destroyed. EU nations would all be under the rules of an Anglo-American led corporate empire.
You may read Susan George's full article here, as well as my recently re-published one.
And then there is TiSA, the 'Trade in Services Agreement', of which even fewer people are aware.
It is also being 'negotiated' in secrecy, involving 23 WTO members:
Altogether, we are talking about 50 countries; 49 of them bent to submit to one, the Unites States of Wars, Crimes and Domination.
It doesn't take a lot of imagination to realize that, again, Washington is calling the shots. Actually, the TiSA talks, similar to those of the TTIP, are infiltrated by US corporate trolls and lobbyists, making Washington the representative for the US corporate empire and, of course, for Wall Street.
According to WTO, TiSA would be opening up the market for 'trade in services', meaning - expect privatization of all public and social services, like health care, education, social security systems, pensions, transportation, postal services, telecommunication, water supply and sanitation, solid waste disposal - and more would all be subject to buy-outs by transnational corporations.
Just look at Greece, trying hard to pay back their ill-begotten debt, selling off her national social capital, or life capital, to the detriment of the poor - by now the majority of Greek - who depend on it.
Once a country has signed the trade agreements, there is no way back. It has opened its social and public sectors to rent seeking private corporations.
Like with the TTIP, should a government at a later stage realize that privatization of, say water services, did not bring the promised benefits for the people, it cannot go back and re-nationalize, or municipalize this service.
Remunicipalization of water services is currently happening in France, of all places, the country with the most privatized public water supply systems. In 2012 the government and municipalities of large cities decided to re-take these vital public services. This is currently ongoing.
Under TiSA rules it would not be possible. Worse - once TiSA is signed, a country cannot decide to exempt a particular sector included in the list for potential 'liberalization', for example, health, education and other vital social services.
Corporate arbitration courts, similar to those of the TTIP, would be set up for TiSA - these 'negotiations' are taking place in Geneva, under the auspices of WTO - in secret - and driven by rules, sticks and carrots, imposed by - you guessed it - Washington...
If the EU were to collapse today, both the TTIP and the TiSA talks would come to a standstill. Anyone of the 28 EU countries, or better even of the 19 Eurozone countries, could bring the EU down.
A Grexit, a Brexit, a fiasco emerging from the forthcoming rehash of the Spanish elections - or a firm decision by a government to default on its (mostly) troika imposed debt, could bring the house of cards of the dollar pyramid scheme to fall - and erase once and for all the enslaving dollar-Euro hegemony.
Debt could be renegotiated in newly restored national currencies. Remember, the Euro is barely 15 years old.
So - returning to national currencies should not be dramatic, but rather a sigh of relief - relief from a debt trap, and relief from Washington's and Brussels' boots of oppression.
Imagine what a collapse of the EU and the Euro-zone would mean for the Greek people. Though, rumors have it that more than half the Greek are still adamant in hanging on to the destructive Euro, I bet, its collapse would have hundreds of thousands dancing in the streets.
Syriza could forget the currently negotiated additional €3 billion austerity budget cuts - even less pension and higher taxes for the poor.
To be sure, Greek debt relief will not come from the current EU/EC-troika constellation. To the contrary, the German Minister of Finance, Wolfgang Schaeuble, has ever harsher words for Greece, as if he was threatening pushing Greece out of the EU.
An empty threat, as everybody should know by now. Washington, also the masters of Germany, will not allow a Grexit, or a Brexit or an exit by any EU member.
Washington needs the EU 'intact' to eventually serve as a slave partner in TTIP and TiSA.
What happened and continues to happen to Greece may serve as a (learning) example for other 'weak' southern EU countries to follow - unless, yes, unless, Greece or another country under EC-troika imposed economic and financial stress and strangulation takes the bull by the horns - taking a drastic decision:
That may bring about the end of the nefarious Euro-zone - and the US-created European Union.
Be aware, the EU as it exists today, is not the invention of Europeans; it is a construct thought out immediately after WWII by the US, so as to keep Europe under her control - and to create a buffer zone vis-à-vis communism, the Soviet Union. It worked so far...
This idea still prevails, as we see every day how Russia and her leader is being demonized and slandered by the western media.
Let us be frank, if it weren't for the strategic clear-headedness and foresight of President Putin, we - Europe - would be for the third time in 100 years enmeshed in a world war. And if we let this Washington imposed trend continue, Europe will become an Anglo-American slave-land.
Just look at TTIP and TiSA...
A true federation of sovereign European countries down the road, perhaps even with a common currency and a real central bank, may be a viable long-term solution for Europe.
But - and this is the most important BUT, such a Europe will have to be designed by true and honest Europeans - am I dreaming? - and absolutely without any influence of the United States of America. None...
Anyone of the 28 EU countries could return happiness to the people of Europe; could take the pain, frustration, fear and anxiety away; could reinstate national sovereignty, could bring national pride and local - instead of global - economy to the fore - by exiting the EU, by forfeiting the Euro, by taking the reign of their people into the hands of a sovereign, democratic government.
A simple exit by one country - Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, the UK, France… you name it, could bring the ferocious debt machine to a grinding halt, opening the opportunity of joining a new, more just and more equal monetary scheme - the nascent combined eastern economic space of, To be sure, time is important.
Not for nothing Obama is pushing for speedy conclusions and signing of the disgraceful TTIP.
The signing of these predatory agreements, TTIP, TiSA, TPP, is a key agenda item of Obama's Presidency; his corporate and military legacy - NATO expansion is part of it - may depend on it.
Once these treaties are signed, there is no way back.
If the TTIP is ratified despite all logic, and if subsequently the EU fell apart - each country would still be held accountable to the terms of the agreement. Hence, time for an EU collapse before signing of the TTIP and TiSA is of the essence.
This radical solution may be too much even for staunch EU/Euro opponents. Many of them still seek, hope and dream of a reformed EU. They still live under the illusion that 'things' could be worked out. Believe me - they cannot...
The Machiavellian US-invented venture, called European Union with the equally US-invented common currency - the Eurozone - has run its course. It is about to ram the proverbial iceberg.
The EU-Euro vessel is too heavy to veer away from disaster.
Europe is better off taking time to regroup; each nation with the objective of regaining political and economic sovereignty - and perhaps with an eye a couple of generations down the road envisaging a new United Europe of sovereign federal states, independent, totally delinked from the diabolical games of the western Anglo-American empire.
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